# Hilarious sentence fom the NYT

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [August 23, 2010, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hilarious-sentence-fom-the-nyt/551149 "2010-08-23T13:34:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![smiling\_bandit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@smiling\_bandit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smiling_bandit)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2010, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hilarious-sentence-fom-the-nyt/551149/1 "2010-08-23T13:34:46Z")

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OK, regardless of your politics and your personal opinion of Tom DeLay, he was recently aquitted of, well, everything. The New York Times fires back this zinger:

“But many of Mr. DeLay’s actions remain legal only because lawmakers have chosen not to criminalize them.”

😃

No politics please. I jut thought this was wonderful.

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**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2010, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hilarious-sentence-fom-the-nyt/551149/2 "2010-08-23T13:52:39Z")

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To give them credit, they mention _why_ lawmakers have not criminalized it - because Democrats do exactly the same things.

Although it would be nice if the NYT would insert the same sentence into coverage of other politicians.

“Nancy Pelosi, who has escaped indictment on charges of hiring her relatives only because there is not yet a law against it, said Monday…”

Regards,  
Shodan

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**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2010, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hilarious-sentence-fom-the-nyt/551149/3 "2010-08-23T14:04:31Z")

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Well, so much for “no politics please”.

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**Author:** ![Sailboat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sailboat/32/461_2.png) [@Sailboat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sailboat)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2010, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hilarious-sentence-fom-the-nyt/551149/4 "2010-08-23T14:53:46Z")

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Shodan’s remarks remain permissible only because moderators have chosen not to make rules against them.

🙂